Artist John Sabraw has been testing pigments created from the orange toxic sludge, rich in iron oxides, inherited from decades of coal mining in Southern Ohio. The project is led by Ohio University with a view to demonstrating that the production of commercial paint could fund the expensive cleaning up of the streams polluted by the mining industry. Other areas may want to replicate the model, if successful, including West Virginia and Australia.
Will art free streams of their toxic sludge in the post-coal mining era ?
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